On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 06:43:55PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:13:25PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > > ! is probably needed.
> > >
> > > What for, exactly? I can think of
> > >
> > > Depends: foo (!= 1.34-2)
> > >
> > > but that sounds more like eye candy than really necessary...
> >
> > Depends: foo | ! bar
> >
> > That can be read as "If bar is installed, then foo must also be
> > installed".
>
> That still sounds redundant, and can be currently expressed with
>
> Depends: foo, foo | bar
No, that requires either foo or bar be installed.
Here's the truth table. T indicates the combination is acceptable, F
indicates it is not.
foo, foo | bar foo | ! bar
foo only T T
bar only F F
foo and bar T T
neither F T
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